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  "id": "PC-BEACH-COMMONS",
  "title": "Beach Commons",
  "subtitle": "Eighteen field studies for making public life at the edge.",
  "dek": "Architecture, games, weather, useful objects, radio, ecology, relays, a working harbor, fermentation, restoration, a public science fair, and a 25-mile regional atlas—organized as a growing coastal commons.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-26",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-31",
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        2,
        6,
        13,
        14
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        4,
        5,
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        8,
        9,
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        11,
        12,
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